actual title of the post: ONE CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT HOT PIECE OF ATTOLIAN MANFLESH Pretty sure we knew that was coming from some interview or something Megan did...IDK. I did. But I was still very saddened by this absence. And look at you bein' all considerate.
This feels like a setting-the-pieces novel, and so it was of course going to be shorter, and its not-as-goodness is perhaps going along I definitely got that from this one. I don't know why that's all I have to say on the matter. But it is. Deal with it.
and I also found that knowing he was talking to Eddis lessened my worries about how his sections would turn out Actually I could almost have highlighted this entire section of your post. I agree very muchly, with the whole "Not being as memorable of a narrator" thing. I think that's part of the reason the first person POV didn't work for me in this one. It may as well have been third person omniscient or even limited. There were a few notable humorous moments, but I think those could even have been snuck in there if the narration were third person throughout.
"He was trying to propose marriage and she thought he was talking about a poem he was writing. I was laughing like a very quiet fiend, trying not to make the branches around me shake, and then, between one heartbeat and the next, and to my complete surprise, it wasn't funny anymore." This is obviously from the final version, and as I only have the ARC (*sob*) I am having trouble figuring it out. I shall have to squee about that later. Preferably not at 3am, like it is now; maybe I can think more clearly then. Oh...just read the next paragraph. Gen and Dite...maybe I do kind of remember it then. 3am, I told you. Thinking = not so much right now. So, yeah, AW!! GEN I LOVE YOU!
And I personally find that frustrating because I want them to be BFFs so that I can have both Costis and Eugenides, because I love them both very, very much. Hm. You're right about the whole them being on different levels. Honestly, I've never really thought that much about it. I guess I'm just too stuck in Costis's head to notice what Gen is not noticing. But, yes, my dream is for them to be besties in Attolia forever when Costis becomes Captain one day.
And I kind of want Eddis and Attolia to be BFFs as well. They are so different and they had that mutual hate thing going on for a while, but that comforting moment between them (and the one you mention from QoA) just makes me love them that much more.
AND NOW I REALLY WANT MY COPY TO BE HERE! ALL AMAZON TELLS ME IS "IN TRANSIT." THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. I WANT A LOCATION, DAMMIT! AND I WANT THAT LOCATION TO BE MONTGOMERY, AL!!!!
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Date: 2010-03-24 08:16 am (UTC)Pretty sure we knew that was coming from some interview or something Megan did...IDK. I did. But I was still very saddened by this absence. And look at you bein' all considerate.
This feels like a setting-the-pieces novel, and so it was of course going to be shorter, and its not-as-goodness is perhaps going along
I definitely got that from this one. I don't know why
that's all I have to say on the matter. But it is. Deal with it.
and I also found that knowing he was talking to Eddis lessened my worries about how his sections would turn out
Actually I could almost have highlighted this entire section of your post. I agree very muchly, with the whole "Not being as memorable of a narrator" thing. I think that's part of the reason the first person POV didn't work for me in this one. It may as well have been third person omniscient or even limited. There were a few notable humorous moments, but I think those could even have been snuck in there if the narration were third person throughout.
"He was trying to propose marriage and she thought he was talking about a poem he was writing. I was laughing like a very quiet fiend, trying not to make the branches around me shake, and then, between one heartbeat and the next, and to my complete surprise, it wasn't funny anymore."
This is obviously from the final version, and as I only have the ARC (*sob*) I am having trouble figuring it out. I shall have to squee about that later. Preferably not at 3am, like it is now; maybe I can think more clearly then. Oh...just read the next paragraph. Gen and Dite...maybe I do kind of remember it then. 3am, I told you. Thinking = not so much right now. So, yeah, AW!! GEN I LOVE YOU!
And I personally find that frustrating because I want them to be BFFs so that I can have both Costis and Eugenides, because I love them both very, very much.
Hm. You're right about the whole them being on different levels. Honestly, I've never really thought that much about it. I guess I'm just too stuck in Costis's head to notice what Gen is not noticing. But, yes, my dream is for them to be besties in Attolia forever when Costis becomes Captain one day.
And I kind of want Eddis and Attolia to be BFFs as well. They are so different and they had that mutual hate thing going on for a while, but that comforting moment between them (and the one you mention from QoA) just makes me love them that much more.
AND NOW I REALLY WANT MY COPY TO BE HERE! ALL AMAZON TELLS ME IS "IN TRANSIT." THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. I WANT A LOCATION, DAMMIT! AND I WANT THAT LOCATION TO BE MONTGOMERY, AL!!!!